When you shell out the money to buy STATA SE so that you can have as many as 32,000 variables, you also have to have a supercomputer for this to work. In practice, you will increase your variable limit from about 2200 to about 5300.
After 10 years of marriage, both of you will forget that [...]
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Things I learned today…
Posted in research, undergrads, work/family on June 27, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Sometimes too much knowledge is a bad thing…
Posted in adventures with child, sociology, work/family on April 8, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I’ve been thinking about this post for awhile and see that Anomie has beaten me to it… We’re facing a similar dilemma and I’d love to hear from those of you who study education or neighborhoods. My knowledge of these topics is mostly limited to the conditions in each that cause crime — this knowledge [...]
NSP to the rescue! The Book Version
Posted in on the tenure track, work/family on April 1, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Apparently the book publishers are really hurting for material. I’ve received a request from a press to write some columns on adjusting to the tenure track and successful work/family balance, with a book at the end of it. I wonder if I’ll get 300,000 for it? I’ve been working on a proposal for a week and the main problem [...]
A Day in the Life… Random Thoughts.
Posted in adventures with child, job market, on the tenure track, research, teaching, work/family on March 2, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Like any good quantitative sociologist, I hate SPSS and love STATA (I don’t really know what you SAS folks are up to but you lost me at LIBNAME). That said, why must there be a limit on the number of variables? And, why 2,047? For a girl who does nothing that doesn’t involve longitudinal data [...]
Please, give a second born a break!
Posted in adventures with child, research, work/family on February 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
To all of you doing birth order research, could you please stop? Just kidding, but could you refrain from talking to reporters about it? It’s always funny when my older brother sends me newspaper articles about the IQ point advantage first-borns have relative to second-borns (it propelled me to a PhD, but then the stinker [...]
Week 7 Product Report
Posted in work/family, writing on February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Product report is late this week not because I didn’t write but because newsocprof was off to Vegas for the weekend (sans newsocprof junior!*). Last week, I wrote for 4 out 5 days. I think I may decide that 4 days out of 5 is a reasonable goal after tracking this for 7 weeks. Is [...]
Ode to Spouse on Valentine’s Day
Posted in work/family on February 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve always thought myself fortunate not to be married to another sociologist. I know some great academic couples but between the two-body problem in job searches* and never quite leaving work behind, I like being married to someone who knows very little about the specifics of what I do. We’re supportive of one another but we don’t [...]
Oh s***…
Posted in adventures with child, work/family on February 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ve had to leave work a lot in the past few months because my child has been constantly sick. She started day care in September — since at her age (2) the main peer interaction involves licking one another, she’s been sick pretty much every day for 4 months (as have we). In terms of time [...]
Dr.? Who me?
Posted in on the tenure track, work/family on January 26, 2008 | 10 Comments »
I’ve mentioned before how uncomfortable I am with being called Dr… I’ve been known to ‘profess’ on occasion but people who went to medical school are doctors.* Especially with respect to graduate students, I’ve always been a little bothered by places that insist that students refer to the faculty as Dr. or Professor. I hope [...]
Academic Knowledge for Public Consumption
Posted in research, work/family on January 25, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I’ve been thinking lately about why I do what I do and what drives my interest in sociology. What I came up with is that I’m most interested in work that easily applies outside of narrow sociological interests or sub-disciplines. I like taking social facts in my area of expertise and trying to creatively make [...]
